Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Kuwait and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Infiniti to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Rapeman. All the underground hits.
All Motorama tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Normal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ossler record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eli Mardock,
Nirvana,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Sexual Harrassment,
Joyce Sims,
Marcia Griffiths,
Bobbi Humphrey,
FM Einheit,
Sun Ra,
Ituana,
Fad Gadget,
Soft Cell,
Aural Exciters,
Ponytail,
The Blackbyrds,
Con Funk Shun,
The Black Dice,
MDC,
Joensuu 1685,
Todd Terry,
L. Decosne,
Moss Icon,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
China Crisis,
Yellowson,
Lindisfarne,
Cybotron,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Black Flag,
cv313,
Reuben Wilson,
Laurel Aitken,
Talk Talk,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Piero Umiliani,
Stetsasonic,
Marmalade,
Rites of Spring,
Scion,
The Fall,
Eddi Front,
The Golliwogs,
Buzzcocks,
In Retrospect,
Minny Pops,
Scientists,
Black Pus,
Lucky Dragons,
Wolf Eyes,
Peter & Gordon,
AZ,
The Doobie Brothers,
Funkadelic,
Sex Pistols,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Seeds,
DNA,
Albert Ayler,
This Heat,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Big Daddy Kane,
Sister Nancy,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.